Independent music business model is about freedom. The Internet is the enabling technology that will unleash a new wave of innovation from independent music artists. Traditional labels have to come to grips with the fact that the Internet is a distribution outlet that can not be controlled.

Many of ...

Online sales continue to soar. Of course, the percentage gains look staggering because the sector has hardly scratched the surface of the retail universe. But, before we roll our eyeballs at online spending, keep in mind the Internet is being used in novel ways to significantly influence retailing. How many ...

Advertising Schmadvertising. Well, the Google-AOL agreement is about advertising, but the big prize might be on web-based TV. There’s some Google-bashing over the deal , but ruling the Internet in the future may entail having to rule television. Bet you won’t find a disagreement from Terry Semel. ...

Apple iTunes traffic soars. This is a culture shift that has changed our culture and the world. More here.

Multimedia formats are changing the landscape of the search business. Yahoo’s multimedia guru Jeff Karnes talks with me about ‘multimedia’ search and how it is developing.

Multimedia search is one of those things that not alot of people are talking about but is a big deal. As ...

Update: Here is further reflection from Todd Chanko of Jupiter Media on the barebones announcement on the Google/AOL deal. The hidden move here is the Instant Messenger play. Looks like Google may get more than just content from AOL but also some Internet technology. The ...

PodTech Reporter: Gil Roberts, PodTech News Reports from Google.

SAN FRANCISCO December 18, 2005 (PodTech News) - Google and America Online have been working over the weekend to complete the terms of an agreement first reported on Friday. The verbal OK made between the Internet giants four days ago included ...

PodTech News (San Francisco, CA) - December 16, 2005: Google, Yahoo and MSN are jockeying for position. It’s a race that’s only in the very beginning. Broadband usage isn’t even at a level that gives a clear picture of what kinds of revenue drivers the Internet giants will ...

SUNNYVALE, CA, December 14, 2005 (PodTech News): Today Yahoo! launched “My Subscriptions,” a new Yahoo! Podcasts feature that helps people keep track of all their podcast subscriptions in one online location at http://podcasts.yahoo.com/my.

If a consumer listens to podcasts directly from their web browser, they can ...

In our last podcast, IDC, IBM and NetApp chimed in on the storage market. It’s a tough industry to get into, what with falling costs and the time it takes to build long term trust with customers. But the people at Mimosa Systems in Santa Clara think the storage industry ...

SAN FRANCISCO December 12, 2005 (PodTech News) - The storage software market has been on a two-year growth spurt. The research firm IDC says the industry posted its 8th straight quarter of year-over-year double-digit growth.

IDC reports that in the July through September quarter of this year the market grew 10 ...

This past weekend I spoke with Anil Dash at Six Apart. I did a podcast release about their announcement of partnering with Yahoo! Here is the podcast from Six Apart. Since it’s all over tech.memeorandum.com then I guess this isn’t an exclusive. I was ...

Yahoo puts out a major release of Konfabulator (3.0). I had a chat with Toni Schneider, Yahoo’s VP of the Developer Network, about this big news for the Yahoo developer group. More on the upcoming Podcast here at PodTech (Toni was busy working all weekend so ...

Accel is one of Silicon Valley’s top venture firms and I had a chance to sit down with their mobile partner Kevin Efrusy. This is Kevin’s second podcast where we talk about mobile and wireless ventures. Kevin has been tracking this segment and making investments for Accel. ...

PodTech News (December 11, 2006): The media skies are probably clearing a bit for Yahoo as Google’s and Microsoft’s every move are not dominating the headlines as much these days. Comscore Networks says in October Yahoo and its web properties had a solid lead (124 million unique visitors) ...

Intel’s mid quarter update did little to satisfy some traders who wanted to see more revenue in the company’s forecast for the current quarter.
But industry analysts say the chip industry looks pretty good, even in moderate growth mode. The latest moves by Intel–at least those that have garnered a ...

Occasionally we do more at PodTech than just tech news. We thought we’d throw something cultural at you. So, without recounting Ving Rhames’ famous line from Pulp Fiction, why not take a 7-minute break from the IT buzz and hear how “old” is “new” in this PodCast from ...

PodTech News’ Jason Lopez interviews Laura DiDio from the Yankee Group. Jason and Laura talk about the effort that Microsoft is undertaking to get a competitive position in the online ad market. Laura, who has covered the software business, talks about the fight for AOL…she says ‘it’s going ...

Sun has come out swinging with a major update of its UltraSparc line of microprocessors. IBM says the chips are narrow in capability and lock users into Sun’s Solaris operating system. But Sun, ever the vigilant problem-solver techie, says the T1 chip is a very lucrative answer to real world ...

Introducing PodTech News. PodTech.net will now be providing cutting edge technology, business, and national news and reporting via podcasts. Look for “Fresh News and Fresh Voices” at PodTech News and PodTech.net.

December 5, 2005 (PodTech News) - Intel announced it would invest US$250 million in India ...

Rich Karlgaard, Forbes Editor and Publisher, talks about his book Life 2.0. I sat down with Rich at the Telecosm conference in Lake Tahoe. I was impressed with Rich. Not only a good guy but very smart. We talk a little about web 2.0 but afterward ...

I have done some CTO podcasts in the past and I’d like to do more of them. So I’m putting out a general notice for CTO’s in the Bay Area that would be interested in being interviewed the CTO infoTalk Series. Ideally anyone who can talk about technology ...

TCP/IP Changed Computing and RSS will Change Media. - More on the PodTech Gallery. podtech.wordpress.com.

PODTECH EXCLUSIVE - YAHOO! PODCAST MEDIA RELEASE
In another PodTech Podcast InfoTalk exclusive I sat down with Scott Gatz lead RSS manager and Ethan Diamond lead Yahoo! Mail manager to introduce via a Podcast the Yahoo! expanded RSS platform and RSS integration into Yahoo! Mail. Plus Yahoo! ...

Last month IBM interviewed me while at the IBM headquarters meeting with their corporate podcast team (which I did an infoTalk interview for PodTech). Their internal podcast of me was distributed to all of their worldwide employees. I had a chance to speak about PodTech’s vision ...